Mitten



2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

(Model.)

J. TYSDAL.

MITTEN.

Patented Marl 5, 1889..

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2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

(ModeL) J. TYSDAL.

MITTEN.

Patented Mar. 5, 1889.

Zifnesses 11/ QL/ y I UN TED STATES Parnr @irricei JOHN TYSDAL, OF LEE, ASSIGNOR TO LOUIS BERLIZIIEIMER, OF CHICAGO,

ILLINOIS. I

MITTEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,222, dated March 5, 1889.

Application filed October 30,1888. Serial No- 289,5OZ. (Model) To call whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN TYSDAL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lee, in the county of De Kalb and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mittens, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the class of reversible mittens in which the thumb portion is provided in duplicate, on opposite sides, one being normally extended to serve as a covering for the thumb and the other tucked in to be drawn out when required to serve as the thlimb-covering. lhe general purpose of the construction thus briefly set forth is to permit each side of the mitten to serve as the palm, which. is the part most subjected to wear and consequently soonest worn out, whereby the wearing capacity of the article is, substantially at least, doubled.

The object of my improvement is to provide a mitten ihe construct-ion of which shall substantially and without materially increasing the cost of the article quadruple its wearing capacity and at the same time aitord,

without to that end increasing the quantity i of material necessarily employed to produce my improvcmcnt, a covering to extend over the wrist of the wearer.

1n the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved mil-ten showing one side thereof with its thumb portion rcprescnted by full lines as extended in one direction and by dotted lines as reversed to extend it toward the opposite end of the mitten, and further indicating by dotted lines details explanatory of the manner of using the article. h side of the mitten with the thumb portion on that side tucked in, Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 3 of Fig. .l and viewed in the direction of ihe arrow. Fig. l is a perspective view of a portion of ihe mitten, illustrating the manner in which I fold the open end preparatm to sewing or otherwise securing it to render it permanently closed; and Fig. 5, a perspective view of the mitten.

A is the mitten, formed of any suitable material, and most readily of four rectangular pieces thereof, which should be of equal dimensions, each having a blank for one side Fig. 3 shows the opposite of the thumb portion extending from one edge. These blanks may then be secured together in pairs at the edges from which the thumb-blanks extend, leaving the bases of the latter unsecured and securing the edges of the coincident thumb-blanks together to form the thumb portion ll. This procedure forms one side of the mittcnsay that presented to view in l. The other side is formed in the same manner, affording the thumb portion B, as shown in Fig. 2. The two parts or sides thus produced are secured together along their lateral edges 7' and r, and toward one end the lateral edges are folded inward in a manner to cause the end to taper somewhat, as illustrated, and which produces theinside ears, q and q, when the outer edges of the folds are sewed up or otherwise telnporarily secured, and likewise the straight end 99 between the tapering portions of the lateral edges. Thus the mitten is formed with a thumb portion on each side. As only one at a time of the thumb portions requires to be used, the other is tucked into the mitten, as shown by dotted lines in lS-i 2, by turnin it outside in.

To adjust the mitten, as shown in Figs. 1

and 2, on one hand, the latter is insertedinto the open end 0 and the mitten drawn on, when it may be fastened about ihe wrist by means of a tape, 11, inserted iransvcrsel through the wrist portion, as shown. \Vhen the palm side presented to view in Fig. 1 is worn out with use, the thumb i may be tucked in and the thumb l3 drawn out, thereby constituting, for the same hand, what was formerly the back the palm, and vice 'versa. \Yhen both sides have become worn, the fastening of the closed end ripped or nnfasi-cncd and the opposite open end fastened-as was such closed end-namely, by folding in the lateral edges toward the en tremity, as indie: ted in Fig. 4, and stitching or otherwise closing them and the end 0, and one thumb portion is turned, by merely reversing it, to extend toward the newly-closed end, the other thumb portion being tucked in. In this condition the former wrist por tion of the mitten becomes the covering for the other hand and the worn part of the mitten becomes the wrist portion, to which the tape or other fastening u may be applied to serve the purpose described, being removed from the former wrist portion. \Vhichever of the two sides of the newly-closed end be used first may, when worn, have its thumb portion tucked inv when that on the opposite side is pulled out to constitute that side the palm.

Thus, as will be seen, the one mitten is caused to afford four inner sides or palm portions, thereby practically qua ilrupling the wearing capacity of the article, and the open end, which forms the hand-covering when closed, affords for the wrist a covering sufficiently long to extend over the coat or other sleeve of the user and thereby be held the more firmly in place, and which is thus provided as an incident of the construction and with out requiring additional material for that sole purpose and thus increasing the cost of manufacture.

Owing to the manner of forming the thumb portions-namely, by having their bases opening from a central. seam, .r-they will lie fiat when turned to extend toward either end and not tend to project at an angle. As illustrated, the thumb portions are shown to be re-enforced by caps m, which are commonly provided in mittens of the class to which my improvement relates.

That I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A reversible mitten comprising the following construction: four rectangular blanks, each having a thumb-blank extending from one end, the rectangular blanks being united in pairs along the edges provided with the thumb-blanks which are united around their edges, thereby forming the thumbs B and B, and the said united pairs of blanks being secured together near their lateral edges and folded into ears q and qf at the sides and closed toward one end, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN TYSDAL. in presence of- J. W. DYRENFORTH, M. J. BOWERS. 

